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That's the same for any country I think. It's just amazing that they are so knowingly surrendering an important component of national security in exchange as pa
by brnt 5y ago
That's the same for any country I think. It's just amazing that they are so knowingly surrendering an important component of national security in exchange as part of a frankly stupid strategy (converting house heating to gas, which as said is something surrounding countries did more than half a century ago). Were they building gas fired power plants and getting people to install electric heat pumps, in anticipation of sufficient green production capacity, I would understand it better.
It's such a bad plan on many fronts, that I really struggle to understand how an otherwise pretty rational political culture arrived at it.
- inglor_cz 5y agoFear of nuclear tech contributed to this sequence of decisions. It is an old German (and Austrian) problem, which actually predates Chernobyl by at least a decade. Targeted Soviet propaganda might have played a role; Soviets were very interested in getting Allied nuclear weapons out of West Germany. Spreading all kinds of FUD about the "Atom" in general was a way to cultivate public opinion towards that goal.